Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 7,632 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

Minnesota Representative Ellison Keith
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Keith M. Ellison (1963- )
Brown Fellowship Society Cemetery Founded in 1790 (Avery Photograph Collection, Avery Research Center, College of Charleston)
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Brown Fellowship Society (1790-1945)
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Opal C. Jones ( ? — ?)
Battle of Olustee
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The Battle of Olustee (February 20, 1864)

Explore Global African History

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Isabel Dos Santos (1973- )
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Distant Whistles, Muted Flutes: Ada Wright in Glasgow, 1932
Africa in 1595 as known to Italian explorers and cartographers
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Africa and Africans in the Imagination of Renaissance Italians (1450-1630)
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Emmanuel “Manu” N’Djoké Dibango (1933-2020)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

New York Times Article on the Lynching of George Smith, Obion County, April 1931
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Eyewitness to Terror: The Lynching of a Black Man in Obion County, Tennessee in 1931
Frances Louise Hamilton (LT) and Hallie Annie Dee Williams (RT), 1927 Yearbook Photos
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Go Anyplace But Here, Please: The Fight to Train Black Nurses in San Diego
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After the Underground Railroad: Finding the African North Americans who Returned from Canada
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Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Early 20th Century Harlem Radicalism

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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